WLYF

Not to be confused with LYF or WU LYF.

WLYF

City	Miami, Florida
Broadcast area	South Florida
Branding	101.5 Lite FM
Slogan	"Refreshing"
Frequency	101.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1948 (as WWPB-FM)
Format	Adult Contemporary HD2: Soft Rock Today's Life
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	248 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	30827
Callsign meaning	LYF = "Life"
Former callsigns	WWPB-FM (1948-1969)
Owner	Entercom (Entercom Miami License, LLC)
Sister stations	WAXY, WSFS, WMXJ
Webcast	Listen Live Listen Live (HD2)
Website	Lite Miami Today's Life Miami (HD2)

WLYF (101.5 FM, "101.5 Lite FM") is an Adult Contemporary music formatted radio station that broadcasts in Miami Gardens, Florida (the studios and transmitter are both located here). The station targets women aged 25–54. WLYF has solid ratings throughout South Florida and is a popular listen at work radio station due to its format and laid back presentation.

History

101.5 FM first signed on the air as WWPB-FM in 1948 as a B-EZ station. The station was owned and operated by Paul Brake for more than twenty years.

In 1969, Sudbrink Broadcasting assumed ownership of the station. The call letters were changed to WLYF (known by the moniker "Life" for many years until the current "Lite FM" name was adopted) and, later that year, Sudbrink Broadcasting relocated to the WLBW television tower and increased their effective radiated power to 100,000 watts. The station became the nation's first FM radio station to achieve a number one audience rating.

In 1977, the station was sold to Storer Broadcasting. Two years later, in 1979, it was purchased by Jefferson-Pilot Communications (now the Lincoln Financial Group). The studio was moved to NW Second Avenue in North Dade, near what is now Sun Life Stadium.

WLYF, now known as 101.5 LITE FM, has since evolved from an Easy Listening format to a mainstream Adult Contemporary format under radio vet Rob Sidney who took the program director chair from Larry Travers when it was Easy Listening.

On December 8, 2014, Entercom announced that it was purchasing Lincoln Financial Group's entire 15-station lineup (including WLYF) in a $106.5 million deal, and would operate the outlets under a LMA deal until the sale was approved by the FCC.^[1] The sale was consummated on July 17, 2015.

References

↑ "Entercom Acquires Lincoln Financial Media" from Radio Insight (December 8, 2014)

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WLYF

Radio-Locator information on WLYF

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WLYF

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Coordinates: 25°58′01″N 80°12′43″W / 25.967°N 80.212°W / 25.967; -80.212

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